It bothers me when people rant about euro players, especially when you consider there's a couple who are arguably top 10 players right now. That said, there's not a a single euro in this draft I'd take. Kanter is intriguing but his knee issues is just too glaring a problem. This is a draft we need a really solid pick on if we're going to be anything in a couple years. ESPECIALLY when you consider how high we'll most likely be drafting.

How serious is the knee injury?

ďI have no idea who Chukwudiebere Maduabum is, but on his Draft Express profile, heís listed as Chu Chu. I think heís worthy of picking just for that. He immediately is in the running for best All-Time NBA name.Ē -Tim W.

Yes, I know it is set to "Harrison Barnes" right now. But not before. No, it was locked in on "unknown European talent that might or might not ever show up." Congrats on using your picks on The Invisible Man. Checking our recent draft picks is a bit of a horror story. Well not if you demand harsh consonants and a lot of "k's." And a lot of bad drafting.

Can we all agree it is time to let the experiment go? Stop with the Euro projects.

I can get why you guys are looking racist by saying we should not draft an euro with our top draft pick(moreover, we got burnt the last time, drafting an Euro with a Top 5 pick, *cough* Bargs). However, there are good European players in the league(Omer Asik - the anti-Euro center logging significant minutes on the Tom Thibbodeau led Top 3 Chicago Bulls, Ersan Ilyasova on the Milwaukee Bucks with their stingy defense under Scott Skiles, Semih Erden - a third string center that filled in for the Boston Celtics admirably well when Shaquille O'neal and Jermaine O'neal went down with injury, the Gasol brothers playing nice stifling D for their respective teams and others too), it is just that I can not trust BC and his awful scouting group under Jim Kelly to ever find the good European player - a diamond in the rough, the team needs. I am not racist(I am black) but due to the ineptitude of our drafting team(to be sincere, our drafting history is a joke and the Raptors organization has probably been 5 years behind of where we are supposed to be because of our bad drafting record), it is therefore okay to go the safe route and draft an African-American(even though they might leave at the end of their contracts, but imo they are leaving because this organization is a joke and we are losing too much. The truth is bitter guys sigh.). I rest my case.

i don't think we shouldn't draft a euro just for the sake of drafting a euro, kanter is a different monster than that pssy we call a centre, bargnani. If irving is gone (or doesn't look like the player we thought he is) and the best prospect left is kanter, and we determine his knees aren't completely shot than by all means draft him.

Actually, the best prospect if Kyrie Irving is not on the board is Terrence Jones imo.

I mentioned that because someone brought up enes kanter. He would basically be a PF or undersized center in the NBA and their are better defenders coming out of the NCAA at his size and position. Plus we have Davis I.E there is nothing coming out of euro league for us

I mentioned that because someone brought up enes kanter. He would basically be a PF or undersized center in the NBA and their are better defenders coming out of the NCAA at his size and position. Plus we have Davis I.E there is nothing coming out of euro league for us

I completely disagree. If Kanter's knees are healthy, he's possibly the player best suited to the Raptors and the player who is the perfect match to both Amir and Davis. Every weakness Davis and Johnson have are strengths for Kanter. He's a brute, strong physical presence who can defend the bigger, stronger post guys. He's a good scorer who can score inside and out. He's a strong defensive rebounder, as opposed to a strong offensive rebounder, as is the case of Johnson and Davis.

Both Davis and Johnson are good shotblockers, so should really be paired with a center that is a better positional defender, which Kanter is.

As for him being undersized, from what I gather he's 6'11 but with a reach of over 7 feet. And he's only 18, so there's a chance he's still growing. I'd say he's plenty big enough.